Article No. XVII in Dr. H. Grothe's series on the textile industry at the 1873 Vienna Exhibition, printed in Engineering, describing special machinery for preparing wool. It covers the McNaught "Leviathan" wool-washing machine from Rochdale, Schimmel & Co. wool opening and scutching machines from Chemnitz, and Bede & Co.'s continuous dividing apparatus for carding machines from Verviers. Two pages of engraved machinery illustrations accompany the text. The scan also includes unrelated items on a dinner of the Institution of Civil Engineers and on diving apparatus in mines.